Found a good balance last night

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So after hitting "RESPAWN" instead of "Options" last night (yeah yeah I know) I started over on US 124 to resupply.

I started by the Airfield out of Cherno and didn't find anything useful so I hit Cherno.

Market, Fire house both barren so I hit the hospital and tents.

As I'm leaving the hospital with just an Axe I see another survivor heading in from my left so I pretend not to have seen him and just sprint over the road towards the tent then duck by the wall.

Supprise supprise he sprints after me, Turns out he only has an Axe as well in the same situation so I call out and we end up teaming up.

My biggest concern was I had an Alice Pack on but when I see he does (and pulls out a pistol to boot which he was keeping as "a trump card" I figured I litterally had nothing to loose.

My past experience meant I didn't trust him as far as I could throw him but could "use him" for now.

I hit the tents while he hits the hospital and I find an MP5 with 2 mags and I already had a Silenced Mag on me.

I know from experience the MP5 is weak compared to many others, a fact I play up when we regroup to discourage him dropping me for it given we are going to get better at the Airfield

We hit the Airfield to find it fairly empty when we come round the hangers see "Ninja" Running right at us with what looks like a Sniper rifle (looked like an AWP / AWM)

I start yelling for him to STOP STOP, then I spray a warning shot at his feet and Shout LAST CHANCE.

He stops and my new friend goes round behind him so he sits down.

No talking from him at all so we search him and find he has litterally nothing on him not even ammo for the gun so we just ignore him and carry on.

When we find likely looking ammo in the hangers we then sprint back to take it off him but he's long gone =p

We do get an AK for the other guy though at which point I feel safer but it was funny as we then both spent the trip back to Cherno making sure neither got behind or out of sight of the other, must have looked like something out of a bad comedy.

After you, no no, after YOU....ok we go together, 1 2 3....you didn't go...nor did you...etc =p

Cherno is still emtpy.

A bit of tension as I go in the back of the market not realising i've muted myself and he can't hear me reply when he tries to ID me from the front.....

We come across another survivor who looks like he's taking aim at my "new friend".

When he notices me as well, aiming at his head, he calls out "don't kill me dude, I'm friendly" ...uh huh....

We then all get shot at by a dinner bell in the Industrial building West of the Hospital and decide to go in and teach him a Lesson but can't find him.

At this point it's near midnight for me so I tell them I'm going to log out.

They both say Good bye...while making a sprint for my location, weapons up....

I think that night was the most fun I've had so far and that it was the right balance.

No out and out deathmatch slaughter but a constant distrust and "are you useful to me or dead weight" balancing of the scales ;)

That said playing with Real life mates has also been fun and a lot easier, but I have to admit I did enjoy the tension and grave yard humour that came with it.